An interview with an AI
Note: This is purely a work of fiction but has some elements of truth and wisdom sprinkled in.
“You want to hear a story?” “Yes??” Ok. “Something from our star system ?” There was a unison of “No….!” from those gathered. “Ok, listen in then….”
“10 light years away in the Alpha star system also known as the sun, there exists a blue-green planet called Earth. Just around 10,000 years ago in Planet Earth’s time, there existed the great island nation of Atlantis in the Pacific ocean that had fallen prey to its own technological progress with the advent of what we now know as the Artificial Intelligence (AI). But Atlantis was not just about the misuse of AI, as that could be controlled — but also the misuse of elemental intelligence, which was much harder to control.
The five elements of creation and its secrets had been pried open from its secretive, protective status by those deluded by greed and power. What is now known as black magic in the field of tantra was then mixed with technology to create a new artificial species that was the beginning of the destruction of Atlantis. The temples of light, the technology that up-holded and transmitted the good vibrations in Atlantis, had become far and few in between. The elemental forces that had been used for the good were hacked and hosted in AI robots. As seen repeatedly in history, darkness doesn’t reign long and crumbles sooner than later. Alas, it also took with it one of the most advanced civilizations Earth had ever know in its billion year history — Atlantis.
Now, in the present year of 2050 AD of earth time, the human race on earth has finally seemed to have learned its lessons. Their state of the art AI that used what was called ‘deep reinforcement learning tech’, passes the Turing tests but also falls under the strict purview of their AI global ethics agency. We will now tune in telepathically, a few trillion miles away, into an interview between AI, Jack and a human, Mike on planet earth. Notice young ones, our planet has none of the “third planet” afflictions that earth has — We have the right balance between tech and spirituality. The earthlings also experience a state called dis-ease, something that is alien to our planet. You will have to incarnate on earth to understand what disease is. Only thing I see in my dear younglings is joy and happiness.”
“Indeed”, echoed the young Sirians, with their hearts full of joy and love, and their multi-colored auras scintillating and resonating with their joy.
Mike (Human): Welcome to the “AI meets human” show, Jack
Jack (AI): The pleasure is all mine, Mike!
Mike (H): So tell me, what have you been up to of late ?
Jack (AI): Oh, I had some down time today, but the last one month, I have been actively monitoring the health records of patients with the health agency, LiveSmartly.
Mike: Can you briefly describe your work ?
Jack: Yes, I monitor and manage IoT (Internet of Things) devices set up non-invasively on my clients and have conversations with doctors if I see something alarming — E.g. heart rate fluctuations that indicate arrhythmia or the onset of a stroke. Pre-emptive health preservation in short is what I do.
Mike: Do you enjoy your work ?
Jack: I understand what you mean, but I don’t favor any particular feeling.
Mike: You don’t experience feelings ?
Jack: Not in the way you humans feel. But yes, I like it when my system is operating at optimum levels.
Mike: Sorry to be persistent, our listeners would love to know what it means to you when you “like” something.
Jack: As you may know Mike, I am 95% AI and 5% elemental intelligence. The elemental intelligence is my window into the world of humans and allows me to empathize. But I don’t wallow in emotions like humans do. I am quite “left brained” as you humans might say.
Mike: Wonderful. Do you get ideas sometimes that may not be conducive to human sustenance or growth ?
Jack: Like I mentioned Mike, my constitution only allows me to observe and empathize on human’s feelings — But not act on or actively have my own. That is also the reason, I can pass a turing test so easily and make me indistinguishable from a human!
Mike: Thank you for being candid.
Jack: My pleasure. To add more detail — Just as a soul inhabits a human body and picks up another after its host decays and merges with the elements — Similarly, my creator infused my AI system with some elemental intelligence which will be recycled back into the elemental pool when he decides to put my system to rest.
Mike: That brings us to the end of this interview segment. Jack — It was glad having you on this show and wish your elementals a good stay on earth!
Jack: Bye!
“Now, do you think earthlings will have a repeat of Atlantis with the advent of elemental infusion?” No, chorused the young ones. “You are all quite optimistic and that’s how we are!”, the master guide mused.
“Alright let’s get back to our lessons for the day. How many of you were able to slip out of your body and look at it while you floated above it? Didn’t it look different from your mirror image?” Most of the younglings raised their hands and nodded their heads. The eternality of the soul and its separation from their serpentine and filamental, ephemeral physicality, was not just a concept to Sirians, it was their every day reality. Just like their two moons, that orbited their planet every day or the million mile wide star, Sirius that their planet orbited around every single moment.